The movie follows the story of a New York cameraman trying to catch a sadistic serial killer who enters the New York City subway in the middle of the night and chases subway train passengers. The cameraman tries to track down this man who tries to chase others late at night and then ultimately massacres them in the most horrific way that reflects the path of things for many.
Before flying off the rails in the final curve, The Midnight Meat Train rolls quite smoothly as a mid-'80s-style psycho-killer thriller a la The Hitcher.
Stream on Demand
February 11, 2009
... remarkably effective and, when it finally arrives at the end of the line, admirably simple.
A bloody psycho thriller that derails in the third act with the addition of the supernatural, but until that point is amazingly realistic and alarming.
this devilishly ambiguous thriller leaves viewers to decide whether to take the conventional or the less-traveled tunnel through its narrative network - and the results are a stylishly bloody descent into madness, murder and hell itself.
ESplatter
February 09, 2009
This is the best Clive Barker-inspired movie in a long, long time -- probably since "Hellraiser III" in 1992.
Midnight Meat Train may be no classic of the genre, but it's certainly a better and more interesting film than most of what passes for horror movies these days.
The film hurtles towards the final 'revelation moment' like runaway train. If only it had stopped to take on board some of Barker's heavy mythical dread.
